Are you bored with your work, your relationship or your life?
Being bored is a state of mind when you are fed up and sick of what’s going on or the lack of activity around you. Complacency also contributes to feeling bored. Boredom becomes a great concern when it results in procrastination, indecision and feeling listless and jaded.
The best way to avoid feeling bored is to make your life interesting by not sticking to too many routines. Another way is by making daily progress in everything that you do. You need to pay attention to you thoughts and daily activities and find ways not to submit yourself to drudgery and taking things for granted.
Here are a few tips to overcome boredom.
- Change your thoughts.
Your thoughts affect your behavior. By changing your mind about the meaning of your emotion and experiences, you will generate a different attitude.
- Get inspired with powerful long-range goals.
Powerful goals keep you inspired. You can?t feel bored at the same time when you are motivated to build a life.
- Fire up your imagination.
Create mental images to stimulate your thoughts. Visualize where you want to be and what you want to become. Use your imagination to experience a situation that you want to happen in your life. The wonderful thing about imagination is you can create anything you wish to experience.
- Go through some motions.
Change your physiology. Go for a walk or do something physically outrageous. Write down 10 things you can do and start something from your list to overcome your inertia.
- Journal your feelings and thoughts.
One of the ways to become aware of what triggers your boredom is to question yourself and take a hard look at it. Observe and write down your feelings and thoughts for a week and at the end of it, reflect on them.
- Create curiosity.
Create your curiosity on what?s happening around and inside you. You find life boring because of the repetition or a pattern of some habits or activities. Try to look at and do them differently and get yourself fascinated with other options and possibilities.
- Find something exciting, stimulating and entertaining.
Read, hear, watch or do something stimulating, exciting, and entertaining. Go out, see and experience new things.
- Avoid boring people and situations.
Get away from people and situations that bore you. You can?t just walk out of a relationship but you can give yourself some space to do things that interest and motivate.
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Source:How to overcome boredom.
All good ways to beat boredom, for sure. For some other angles on boredom, check out ThePowerOfBoredom.com
Paul,
I’d like to add to your list…to overcome boredom….do something for somebody else. Find a need an fill it, and you won’t be bored.
I like your sites, your posts, and I’ve read several of them and decided to comment on this one.
My name is Cheryl and I am one of Mark Terrell’s students. He asked that I check out some blogs and post to build traffic and also to learn from other people’s blogs. I would appreciate it if you would visit my blog and comment and tell me what you think.
Thank you.
Cheryl
Cheryl…thanks for stopping by and for your comments. The world can always do with one person more who has an honest desire to help others.
I wish you all the best in doing so, it has continued to bring a smile and happiness to me.
I will visit you site and have a look.
Best wishes..Paul
Letitia…thanks for stopping by, yes boredom is one of the challenges in life.
Thanks for the heads up on the site and coaching…cheers..Paul
O really found use and meaning in this post of yours. Thank you so much! 🙂